It’s been a sad way to start the 2011 NRL season with the news Wests Tigers winger Taniela Tuiaki has succumbed to a chronic leg injury suffered back in Round 24 of the 2009 season.
At the time, Taniela was the best winger in the game. His physical size was enough to put fear into wingers, centres and even forwards he came across.
Throw in his speed and ability to score a try he was the triple threat on the wing with Robbie Farah and Benji Marshall giving him the ball at every opportunity.
A second Brisbane team?
Has the possibilty of a second Brisbane NRL team been given the kiss of death? David Gallop says it’s a real possibility, but expansion has been the topic of the past
two seasons, with talk so far dominating any sort of action.
The percentages will scare you, from the bids themselves they are doing pretty good, but from NRL HQ the word is “Yes, it’s a real possibility, we will be in a better position to talk about expansion in June or July”. The NRL sure has a way of saying a whole lot of nothing when it comes to the future of the game.
Rule change for All Stars
I thought Bill Harrigan said the refs were going back to the basics? Well I guess this hasnt gone through to the All Stars game with a new change added.
The Rule “The team in possession will get six more tackles if it kicks and regains the ball in its own half. The ball must travel five metres forward, and the attacking team must regain the ball prior to halfway to be awarded six more tackles. The kick must also reach where the previous play-the-ball took place.”
I was hoping for no Torso Rule, or even the grounding rule, how about the offside rule (where a player isn’t involved in the play), the scrum time off and the list goes on.
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